ok vy homer number 2...what has vy proven in this league??? ok he won rookie of the year...ok...cool. that proves what???

when someone throws more INT then touchdowns...doesnt that mean they know how to do nothing else then throw ints? because they do that more.

vy does think he is the greatest of all time. he feels that he is entitled to a starting job in the nfl. that is why he thinks he is the greatest. you dont see matt lienart saying i should start because i went to usc. no, he has been benched because of warners play. and what did he do this offseason?? he is busting his :grrr::grrr::grrr: to play better. all vy is doing is talking...that is wrong.

i hope that i get a better response from you this time...but i know its not true.

Where has Vince said it's all about him? All i keep hearing him say is he is ready to play. He want's to be out there with his teammates and fans. You guys are taking things too literal. That's like me saying "My Titans are playing today" Then everyone says it's not your team. That childish remark is what you guys are doing.

ok vy homer number 2...what has vy proven in this league??? ok he won rookie of the year...ok...cool. that proves what???

when someone throws more INT then touchdowns...doesnt that mean they know how to do nothing else then throw ints? because they do that more.

vy does think he is the greatest of all time. he feels that he is entitled to a starting job in the nfl. that is why he thinks he is the greatest. you dont see matt lienart saying i should start because i went to usc. no, he has been benched because of warners play. and what did he do this offseason?? he is busting his :grrr::grrr::grrr: to play better. all vy is doing is talking...that is wrong.

i hope that i get a better response from you this time...but i know its not true.

Might want to get a better rebuttal than just Vince Young homer. It makes me want to disregard all of your argument. None of that has anything to do with why the media is talking about him so much. He had 1 interview with the 360, they just happen to be chopping it up to make the drama last longer. Also you might want to take a grammar class because half the time you are not making any sense.

It's plain enough that Vince being visible irritates some people who post so they jump on everything. But, really, has he given "interview after interview" or has he given one interview cut into segments and played at separate times? Did he say he quit during the game? No, he said the booing made him want to quit because it hurt so much. Not the same thing at all. And, yes, Kuharsky, and several Tennessean writers over-cover and create copy about Vince even when nothing new has happened; I guess they're thrilled this week because they have something new to draw from.

As to Vince's interveiw - I'm glad he did it, I've though he should for a long time because he needed to clear the air, explain his viewpoint and do the PR version of "taking questions until there are no more questions" on a topic that is causing him reputational harm. That's what this interview is, warts and all. It's an act of maturity and professionalism that he's decided to step up this way and deal with a lot of uncomfortable events. Personally, I found his demeanor compelling and his candor to be admirable. And, to criticize his timing is absurd, IMHO, the off-season is the time to do it - everyone would have had a coronary if he'd done this interview last September, no doubt accusing him of "distracting" the team during its great run to focus on himself. I read that Steven Smith commented on Vince's willingness to bite his tongue during the season when he badly wanted to defend himself as being very selfless - quite the opposite of how some have portrayed it.

And I want to address the language issue, which is commonly used on the internet and in the press as "evidence" of a lack of intelligence. We Southerners, of all people, should see that for the red herring it is. Vince speaks in the dialect some call ebonics. It's the dialect he was raised with and taught to speak. Obviously, its not general English. It does not follow general English grammatical conventions. Nevertheless, he uses pronouns and double-negatives in a fashion consistant with the dialect, which simply means his speech patterns are consistant with the "language" that is native to him. The fact that his four years in college didn't wipe out 18 years of speaking another way should not be surprising. Compared with his teen years, he has moved toward general English and will likely continue to move in that direction as he spends more time with people who speak that way. The mockery over this issue is way off base. Listen to yourself the next few days and take note of how much of your own spoken language is something other than general English. You'll be enlightened.

how many people that speak "ebonics" would you consider intelligent?
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I doubt Vince is as dumb as you guys make him look. Remember he went to Texas univ. To get a athletic schol. you must maintain a 2.0 gpa also while he's playing for them.

I really have NO interest in getting into a discussion about how smart Vince Young may or may not be, but really, that's a terrible thing to defend him with. Mostly because you made several groups of words which aren't sentences, but also because it's ridiculous to argue that someone is smart because they can maintain the academic minimum at a state school with the entire support system that they have behind them. They have people who tutor them, people who check to make sure that they're going to class, people who check to make sure that they're doing papers, and possibly even people doing papers or work for them. If you can't meet the bare minimum requirements in that scenario, then you really can be called dumb.

"how many people that speak "ebonics" would you consider intelligent?"

Really, lack of grammar skills is not indicative of intelligence level. He is a product of his environment, as we all are. One the other hand, I can testify that at least four athletes that I had taught or my friends taught, had baby sitters all through college who made sure they got out of bed, went to class, did their homework-or had someone do it, and whatever else needed to be done in order for them to maintain their minimum GPA. These babysitters were professors, students, and members of the athletic department. It would be eye-opening I'm sure if we were to be enlightened on just how many so-called 'student athletes' are doing little more than going through the motions.

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